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1. ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 17:12:41 JST ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

   encountered the usual "too many items and not enough belts" in factorio and solved it with a bit of Verilog

   always @(posedge update) begin
   science_x_delta <= science_x_in + science_x_out * -1;
   science_x_mem <= science_x_mem + science_x_delta;
   end

   • ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 17:12:40 JST ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

     in reply to

     ok so i have an incredibly cursed idea

     factorio currently allows you to use only integers as values. but what if you could have higher order combinators?

     "Red Science" = lambda x: x > 10

     imagine how fantastically unreadable the networks would become! so much worse than the norm

   • ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 17:12:40 JST ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

     in reply to

     i have a recurring problem where i come up with some idea for a game and then have to slap myself and go "wait. this is just reinventing my literal job again"

     this is definitely one of those times.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 17:12:40 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     @whitequark yeah I had to stop playing zachtronics games because that always happened to me

   • ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 17:12:41 JST ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

     in reply to

     it's terrifying just how easily FPGA skills translate to Factorio circuit network skills. the main difference is that wired-AND is back with a vengeance, baby, and it's also now wired-ADD instead of wired-AND

     i'll do my absolute best to never use the circuit network again